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“I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Looks I Believe Findings Direct Aim Arise Contact Contemplation

Book:The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh

Source: The Symbolic Language of Vincent Van Gogh

“It is my experience that marriage does not make one happier. It destroys the illusion that has been the essence of one's previous existence, that there existed something like a soul-mate. The feeling of not being understood is heightened in marriage by the fact that one's entire life beforehand had the aim of finding a being who would understand one. But isn't it better to exist without such an illusion and look this great lonely truth straight in the eye?”

Looks Doe Has Beens Soul Facts Feelings Eye Existence Findings Illusion Understood Lonely Essence Aim Mates Soul Mate

Author:Paula Modersohn-Becker

“Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.”

Process Quality Findings Late Aim Improvement Too Late Throwing Inspection

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but to a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teen-aged boy finding them, and having them speak to him. The review, the stacks in Brentano's, are just hurdles to get over, to place the books on that shelf.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Littles Book Speak Boys New York Findings Aim Library East Spots Reviews Vague Shelves Get Over Jackets Kansas Hurdle

Book:Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

Source: Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

Life Inspirational Life Is Goal Findings Aim Fortune Life Goal Aim Of Life

Book:The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Essential Travel Writings (Annotated Edition)

“The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.”

Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN